Actually, looking through OggHandler, I do think that developing a seperate entity may work well. I'm not quite sure what is wanted by the general public and would like to do what is wanted by the majority, not just wat would be easiest or even the best. What would be the best way to implement a HTML5 player in MediaWiki? TIA - Joseph Roberts

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Joseph Roberts &lt;roberts.joseph(a)ntlworld.com&gt; wrote: OggHandler already implements <video>. It tries to select an appropriate player (<video>, Cortado or VLC) depending on the user's browser.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Joseph Roberts &lt;roberts.joseph(a)ntlworld.com&gt; wrote: [[mw:HTML5]] only really covers the use of HTML5 markup, not other HTML5 features. The idea was to discuss the benefits of changing our doctype from XHTML 1.0 Transitional to HTML5, from the standpoint of what features we want that would break validation in XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Cortado doesn't use HTML5 markup, it's JavaScript that inserts video elements into the DOM at runtime. The fact that the feature it uses happens to be in the HTML5 standard doesn't make much of a difference to anything, any more than does the fact that getElementsByClassName() happens to be in HTML5. [[mw:HTML5]] discusses the possibility of using <video> or <audio> tags directly in the markup. This would allow our video or audio to play even in browsers that have JavaScript disabled, which would be nice to have.